MaelstromFX employs unique and patent pending technology in order to solve the Navier-Stokes equations on an adaptive tetrahedral mesh. This produces very high quality 3D fluid effects for film. The application has performance and scaling advantages over traditional voxel based systems. Although the mathematics are more complex the artist has more flexibility to use different sized tets to represent regions in a scene for the right effect and visual fidelity. In general, this reduces the overall simulation mesh size and thus speed up simulation. These smaller meshes can produce very high quality fluid effects and can scale much larger than uniform voxel meshes.

The first version of MaelstromFX currently supports simulation for air flow including dense smoke, wispy smoke, fog, haze, wind, and liquids. Support for fire and explosions is expected in the future.

MaelstromFX is currently only available under a development arrangement with Exocortex Technologies

Features

• Very high quality fluid effects
• 5 to 10 times more scalable than voxel based systems
• Fully multi-threaded to take advantage of modern many-core processors

Benefits

• Unique fluid effects in less time than conventional systems

Next Steps

Register for updates on MaelstromFX, including when it is publically available:

If you want to take part in the MaelstromFX beta program, please send an email to info@exocortex.com.

Legal notices

This technology is patent pending.